- 1st new album in over two years! Massive anticipation amongst the international metal community. - Seventh release overall from one of gothic metal's most established artists. - The recording sessions featured Niclas Etelavuori of AMORPHIS on bass. - Produced by Hiili Hiilesmaa (H.I.M., Sentenced, Apocalyptica) at Finvox Studios in Finland. - The band have toured the States twice in recent years with the likes of Lacuna Coil, Amorphis and The Kovenant.

Album Description
2003 album from Century Media, includes a multimedia feature of the novel 'Antidote' by Portugese writer Jose Luis Peixoto and the and the 'Everything Invaded' music video.

The album begins with incredible In & Above Men 5/5 rocker with a deep grunt chanting of the tittle from Fernando. From Lowering Skies has a great drum intro and takes into the vortex of chanted, whispering singing & heavy guitars, a 4/5. Everything Invaded is perhaps the best track on the CD along with The Southern Deathstyle, both 5/5. Very heavy and very very quintessential Moonspell. The tittle song starts accoustically and it a beautifull cascade gets into heavy ass ripping metal, a great number 5/5. Capricorn At Her Feet is again essential Moonspell, with a riff warming you up before the melodic onslaught begins, a slow burner, I just love this track, 5/5. LunarStill (a synonym to Moonspell??) is perhaps a weak track and should have been avoided, but it doesn harm anyway, 2/5. A Walk On The Darkside is once again, dark Moonspell takking into their depths of darkness, 5/5. Crystal Gazing is heavy and Pantera like, 5/5, no complaints. However, the last track As We Sleep..is kindof a letdown, with too much dialogue and little thrashing, 2/5.

Nevermind the two slow ones, this album is a masterpeice, I heard its 4-5 already and I just cannot stop playing it. While I personally like Sin/Picado as Moonspells best and I love Darkness & Hope/Wolfheart, Antidote is equally pleasing. Much care has been taken to maintain the dark elements that are typical to Moonspells music. The atmosphere of the album is great, switch off the lights, increase the volume and play ANTIDOTE, the price is too little to pay for the pleasure we get...Keep up the darkness Moonspell, I love you!!!


Now this is more like it!   June 23, 2004
 6 out of 6 found this review helpful

It's always pleasing when a promising band makes good on their promises, and Potugal's Moonspell does exactly this with this bloody-throated, bleeding-eyes album. Having largely abandoned the synths and progamming that were persistent in Butterfly Effect, the boys offer up a more "classical" fare with Antidote -- that is, "classical" in the metal sense, complete with crushing guitars and adrenaline-fueled tempo. Lyrically speaking, I believe that this is some of Ribiero's finest work; the tone is uniformly hollow, cynical, and brooding, and is wholly in keeping with the epigraph in the liner -- "the horror of beauty, the beauty of horror." Hell, the title track alone is enough to put lesser (read shiny-bright-happy-false) souls off their spiritual food for the next two incarnations or so, and "As We Eternally Sleep on It" could probably turn Mother Teresa into a nihilist. If you haven't already considered this album, I'd strongly advise you to -- it's the kind of purchase you feel good about yourself for making.


This is a keeper!   January 10, 2004
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I have been playing this one over and over again and it just keeps getting better with every listen. The crux and pivotal point of the album is the first instrumental break in Capricorn At Her Feet. That is Moonspell at their finest. The final track shames almost all goth metal bands of our time. This band keeps improving and after listening to music for almost fifty years now (yes, old guys can still rock out too) I can honestly say that in the sea of musical muck, Moonspell stands out head and shoulders above most. They resonate universally...this music should be aboard the next interplanetary spacecraft.


The Moonspell was put on me, so I bought this record....   June 25, 2005
 2 out of 3 found this review helpful

Ok metal fans, and music fans alike, this is Moonspell's latest spell, called "The Antidote". It's a really good album, and i'm really impressed. First off, I'd like to say that i'd heard this album way before I actually bought it, and didn't think it was that great, but then I heard "Everything Invaded", and I was hooked.

There are so many great songs on here that it's even hard for me to believe I skipped this one a year ago when I could've had it sooner. The Antidote is a fantastic album filled with dark, brooding, and sometimes beautiful music. It begins with the classicaly heavy "In and Above Men", which of course is a fan favorite. This song is heavy as hell, and Fernando does nothing but grunts and screams on this one.... it's excellent. Next is the exotic "From Lowering Skies" which features Fernando's clean vocals and a really cool drum beat. The chorus is a raging metal fest. Next is the melodic "Everything Invaded", with an amazing chorus (and when I say amazing, I mean amazing, it just fits so perfectly with the song). Up next is the mosher "The Southern Deathstyle", which really has some great sections where you can mosh to. Believe me, I know haha. Next is the title track, which really has some great guitar parts to it, and awesome lyrics. I love this song, however, something better awaits. "Capricorn at Her Feet" is an amazing 6 minute galactic metal song. Now when I say galactic don't expect some Star Wars metal song, but I mean this song has some REALLY trippy moments. Now I don't do drugs, but i'm sure those that do have a great time listening to this one. The Chorus is great, and Fernando's vocals shine on this one. However, the parts I am most talking about are the ending minutes, that also include the solo (which is one of my favorite solos that I have ever heard, and I can play it!) and some great synth work. Next up is the odd but still interesting "Lunar Still", which has this.... strangely enough, sinister moon feel. It sounds like something you would hear in the game Doom 3 (come to think of it, I should try playing that to this song!). It has a unique 3 minute intro of odd and intergalactic synth sounds, and then turns into a crushing intergalactic sinister doom metal song. "A walk on the Darkside" is a trip back to normality on this one, and is really just a hard rock doom metal song.... if that makes any sense. It's really fun to listen too. The end of this cd consists of "Crystal Gazing" and "As We Eternally Sleep on it", and strangely, I just consider these two as the same song, I don't know why, but I do. Anyway, "Crystal Gazing as we Eternally Sleep on it" is a really good ending to this cd, and sets the mood for the new Moonspell which I hear may be appearing sometime in 2005/2006?

Anyway, next time your in a cd store, and you see Moonspell, pick this one up... it's a great musical trip.


AMAZING, their best since Irreligious   December 31, 2003
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I have been a huge fan of this band since the beginning. While their first album/demo (Anno Satanae) was not so impressive, they took an incredibly giant leap with the UNDER THE MOONSPELL EP, still one of my all-time favorites. Their first real album was a great blend of gothic, vampiric, and metal, with a unique touch. IRRELIGIOUS was my other favorite album, possessing more atmosphere, creativity, and sinister genious than any of their other abums. They became a little more user-friendly with the next couple albums (Sin/Pecado and Darkness & Hope), but still maintained a unique and great sound. As an aside, there was a little-known side project called DAEMONARCH, which was a searing, sinister, and atmospheric endeavor into some unholy union of death and black metal. This centered around judeo-christian and earlier taboo religious themes (like the fallen angels and war in heaven), and was incredible! Much like a blasphemous, unrelenting version of Irreligious.

Now for this album:
I love this album. It is a return to a heavier sound that was reduced in the last couple albums. While not the same as the earlier albums, it possesses their raw agression and energy, channeled into a newer form. My standout tracks: In and Above Men, The Southern Deathstyle, Capricorn at Her Feet, and As We Eternally Sleep (a great song, despite other comments). As We Eternally Sleep was not my favorite at first, but has grown on me much more than the others, and may be my favorite now: a brooding, dark, moody, and contemplational song reminiscent of Elizium-era Fields of the Nephilim.